HOCKTON, Antonia

1968 - ?

Antonia Kay Hockton was born in Coventry in the West Midlands in 1968, only daughter of the two children of John Hockton and his wife Lynn D. née Vowles, who married at Coventry in 1964. From an early age Antonia was obsessed with drawing and was certain her future lay in making with her hands, preferably a messy process. Antonia studied at Sheffield Polytechnic 1987-1990 for her BA (hons) Fine Art and at Norwich School of Art 1999-2000 for her Master's in Fina Art. After initially studying fine art sculpture, Antonia took up the offer to train in stone conservation at Lincoln Cathedral. After her work on their Romanesque frieze, she was recruited to work for a French company as a conservator, mostly working on Notre-Dame-La-Grande in Poitiers and other fine buildings. The pull of creativity drew her back to England where she set up her workshop creating bespoke sculpture using a direct carving method to keep the work alive and exciting and working from her sketch book she gives life to the characters within, often using the natural surprises that a raw material like stone can provide. Antonia has now returned to her first love of painting with her interest in birds blossoming into a fascination for the colours within their feathers. Her paintings are made up of layers and capture the essence of a species rather than its form with a flash of colour captured on the mind’s eye and translated into paint. Antonia has been in business for over twenty-five years making art for galleries and commissions, both public and private she is also in business for the repair of ancient stone sculpture with clients including New College, Oxford and the Victoria and Albert Museum and many parish churches around the country.
Website: https://antoniahockton.co.uk

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